Re: doublefault debugging (was Re: Linux v2.5.62 --- spontaneous reboots)

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 18:36:31 EST


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> if possible i'd avoid putting more overhead into the scheduler - it's
> clearly more performance-sensitive than the task create/exit path.

This is a single non-serializing bit test, and if it means that the task
counters are _right_, that's definitely the right thing to do.

                Linus

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